When F-15 fighter pilot Maj. Benjamin “Irish” Coffey launched his jet one night last spring, he wasn’t expecting to run out ...

Simple Flying shall now try to explain DARPA's X-planes a little bit further. A bit of history: the original X-planes The original X-planes, of course, were not unmanned aerial vehicles ...

As the age of manned submarines and aircraft carriers fades, the U.S. Navy must shift its focus toward Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) like DARPA’s prototype, the Manta. UUVs offer a more ...

Military pilots fighting an enemy need to engage in complex maneuvers that take precious seconds or minutes of their time and ...

Another alternative is to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially vertical landing and takeoff platforms, such as ducted-fan organic air vehicles (OAVs), an offshoot of DARPA’s micro air ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for example, has been working on a programme dubbed Gremlins; micro-drones the size and shape of missiles, designed to be dropped from ...

DARPA, the agency behind innovations ranging from the Arpanet to weather satellites, from UAV technology to Siri, is looking to accelerate the impact of the technologies it funds to create ...

DARPA noted that it is working with the US Navy on next steps for testing the Manta Ray. The Navy already operates various types of UUVs — alongside unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and unmanned ...